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About cookiesCookies are small pieces of information placed on your computer or other device by a website which can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain any personal, confidential or financial information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.

Visitors can browse this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser. However, for purely technical reasons this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our online purchasing facilities and personalised features. This is because anonymous cookies are commonly used to keep track of the contents of customers' shopping baskets or trolleys during the checkout process. This facility ensures that the items added to (or removed from) your basket are accurately updated when you go to pay.

How we use cookiesAt Stop & Stare we use cookies to keep track of pages on this website that you have already visited and products you have been adding to your basket and to remember you when you return next time.

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for statistical and analytical purposes. This information helps us to monitor traffic on our website and understand which parts of this site are most popular. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

the IP address of the visitor’s web server (e.g., 123.456.78.90): every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made;

the top-level domain name used (e.g., .ie, .com, .org, .net);

the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used;

clickstream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this web site (e.g., pages accessed and documents downloaded);

The technical information will be used by us only for statistical and administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute "personal data" for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.

How to manage cookiesStop & Stare will make no attempt to identify individual visitors or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is our policy never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law.

However, if you prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from us, or any other website, you can use your browser to do so. If you are not sure of the type and version of web browser you use to access the Internet, please check the ‘Help’ menu on top of your browser window and learn how to change your cookie preferences.